It appears that the beginning of your post was truncated. Please post again. Windows XP is a relatively solid OS with programs running in separate areas of memory so that if a program has a problem, it can be shut down through task manager without affecting other running programs. In task manager you can find which program is causing the excessive CPU usage by clicking on CPU at the top of the listing of processes till the list is structured on CPU usage from highest to lowest. Let us know what you find and the members can likely be of more assistance. If the problem process is "print", please give us details on the printer and driver. Tom Mayer Jdoby wrote: > print. Task Manager shows 100% usage. > > Running Windows XP Pro, AMD 2400, 1 gb of ram, 40 gb harddrive > 7 gb occupied. What can I do to avoid the hangup. Thanks > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com